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The funny thing is that this is exactly what the Windows crowd was telling me 10 years ago.

And exactly what the Internet Explorer crowd was telling me 5 years ago.

And what MS Office crowd is still telling me today.

I didn't care then, and I don't care now. If the games are a bit slower, I can live with it. I don't use Linux to play Windows games, I use it because it is a free platform developed cooperatively for the most part, and without shoving DRM and proprietary stuff in my face.

it is much easier to develop for Intel or AMD because they both open the specs and also contribute actual code.

And still the intel driver is pure shit. I'm still waiting for a kernel which does not enable tv-out output during boot...
I also had tons of freezes with intel and xorg-server-1.8, while the new xf86-video-intel-2.12 does not work with any released libdrm version.
Nouveau driver is awesome considering they have no specs.

The funny thing is that this is exactly what the Windows crowd was telling me 10 years ago.

And exactly what the Internet Explorer crowd was telling me 5 years ago.

And what MS Office crowd is still telling me today.

I didn't care then, and I don't care now. If the games are a bit slower, I can live with it. I don't use Linux to play Windows games, I use it because it is a free platform developed cooperatively for the most part, and without shoving DRM and proprietary stuff in my face.

I agree. The open source AMD drivers are great for everything but running games in Wine. They can run almost any native Linux game just fine like UT2k4 and Doom 3, but not Unigine.
KMS and the other technologies that integrate easily into Xorg and the kernel are really nice. Not having to reinstall the nvidia driver after a kernel update is awesome. Back when I used an nvidia it always sucked to reboot into a new kernel and then remember that X won't work anymore. The nvidia driver also used to show an Nvidia splash scree when X started (probably still does), and that was pretty annoying even if it could be disabled.

For the most part I don't even need 3d when I use Linux. I just browse the web, read email, and write code and tinker around with my Gentoo system.

Whenever I feel like running a Windows game, I use Windows as much as I hate doing it. I used to be able to play games with wine when I had an Nvidia card, but it was a pain to do and wasn't really worth the effort anyway. I really hope wine gets better, but it's still pretty buggy.

compiz isn't that demanding unless you enabled loads of effects... it has been working on nouveau for quite some time I think on 7xxx+ ... I think the older cards used to work but the driver was rewritten for gallium3d and I'm not sure if the support for them has been added back in.